over 200 former prisoners of stalinist camps and their relatives participated on sunday, june 13, in a protest march in chisinau against the existing social policies for victims of the communist regime.
the former political prisoners marched on the stefan cel mare si sfant boulevard in the capital, walked to the central railway station, and held there a meeting to the remembrance of "victims of communist repressions". the protesters carried banners demanding back their properties and land, and describing the communist regime as the "exterminator of 110 million innocent people." they demanded enhanced social protection and respect for their rights, and withdrawal of the russian troops from transnistria. the participants accused the communist authorities of moldova of failure to fulfill their promises to return properties seized during the soviet era. --> read more ...

ostracised hat mit seinem



some people think, that sauseschritt is a travelbog. well it started with the idea to be one, but turned out to be what it is now. i hope it will continue to develop. anyway, the following link to
travelbrochuregraphics fits well in here:


real estate agencies have been carefully preparing for the property buying euphoria expected after May 1st. prices have reached extraordinary heights, especially at the seaside and in and around ljubljana, and the buyers, mostly from germany and neighbouring states, are slowly searching the market. the truth is that in the ten days following the accession to EU a relatively large amount of fixed properties were sold to foreigners. in the piran municipality alone, ten properties were sold to foreigners before the middle of the month compared to the thirteen houses that were sold to foreign citizens during the last five years in slovenia, reports slovenia times in its june edition.

vor moldawien also nach slowenien gereist, erstmals in das "neue mitgliedsland". ort des geschehens: portoroz (ital: portorose) und piran. zwei benachbarte orte an der weniger als 50 kilometer langen slowenischen zugang zum meer, deren kürze so oft gegenstand von witzeleien der diebezüglich verwöhnten kroaten und italiener ist. (frage: der kürzeste witz europas? antwort: zwei personen gehen an der küste sloweniens spazieren ...) nichtsdestoweniger ist genau diese küste heiß begehrt. einem artikel der juni ausgabe der slovenia times ist obiges zitat entnommen. und sauseschritt fühlt sich frappant an die diskussionen vor dem eu beitritt österreichs erinnert, als die ängste vor dem ausverkauf der grundstücke an den seen kärntens bewußt von der fpö geschürt wurden. während also portoroz schon lange vor dem eu-beitritt zu einem der üblichen touristenorte an der (pardon: jugoslawischen) adria verkommen ist, hat sich piran noch ein wenig charme erhalten. was allerdings sauseschritt nicht zu einem grundstückskauf verleiten würde.
